vii, 227 pages ; 25 cm

Spine title: New documents illustrating early Christianity, 6

Includes bibliographical references and index

Paul's advice on marriage and the changing understanding of marriage in antiquity -- A woman's behaviour / E.A. Judge -- Women in public life / R.A. Kearsley -- The allotment after death and Paul's metaphor of inheritance -- The revocation of wills and Gal. 3.15 -- The sale of a slave-girl: the New Testament's attitude to slavery -- A petition concerning a runaway: Paul's letter to Philemon -- 'He gives authority to his slaves, to each his work-' Mark. 13.34 -- 'If you can gain your freedom': manumission and 1 Cor. 7.21 -- The slave of God (Rom. 6.22) and sacral manumission -- Manumission in Thessaly and at Delphi -- 'Even the winds and the waves obey him' Matt. 8.27: Acts of God in shipping contracts -- Self-help and legal redress: the parable of the wicked tenants -- 'Having cancelled the bond which stood against us': Col. 2.14 and the cheirographon -- 'And everyone went to his own town to register' Luke 2.3 -- The provincial census and Jesus' birth in Bethlehem -- The preservation of status and its testing -- Petitions, social history and the language of requests -- Name and status: a veteran seeks tax exemption -- Claudius Lysias (Acts 22) and the question of Paul's Roman citizenship -- A soldier's letter home -- The size of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem -- The Goliath family at Jericho / R.A. Kearsley -- A work contract of Jewish soldiers -- Ammonios to Apollonios: the earliest Christian letter on papyrus? -- The epitaph of Aberkios: the earliest Christian inscription? / A.R. Kearsley -- Monastic orthodoxy and the papyri of the Nag Hammadi Cartonnage -- Ailments and remedies / R.A. Kearsley -- The mysteries of Artemis at Ephesus / R.A. Kearsley -- Ephesus: Neokoros of Artemis / R.A. Kearsley -- Angles in Asia Minor: the cult of Hosios and Dikaios / R.A. Kearsley -- Acts 14.13: the temple just outside the city / R.A. Kearsley

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